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Class Year
2002
Academic Program
Music
Interviewer
Helene Tieger, '85
Description
Plummer describes the process of creating her senior project which combined two bassoon performances with a written project on African Americans and Negro spirituals. She recalls immersing herself in black culture at Bard; her role as the president of the Bard Black Student Organization in her sophomore year; setting up comfortable spaces for all students on campus; talking about race on campus, and trying to understand those who engaged in racially charged 'passive micro-aggressions' ; witnessing voluntary self-segregation in Kline Commons; getting James Bagwell to sing at her senior project; being one of the first student employees of the Bertelsmann Campus Center. She also mentions later becoming a college administrator at UVM, and her current desire to become a priest.
Keywords
Bard Black Student Organization, L&T, Nicole Woods, Carol Werner, Erin Cannan, Kyle Gann, Tremblay, James Bagwell, Leon Botstein, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Alan Josey, the Ravines, Hirsch Hall
Location
Stevenson Library
Interview Date
10-22-2011
Interview Duration
22:48
Recommended Citation
Plummer, Tamara, "Tamara Plummer, '02 (BardCorps)" (2011). Oral Histories. 22.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/oral_hist/22
Significant Quote
"They came from everywhere, you know. We had really interesting conversations that I never had before about race and gender and ethnicity-- and what does it mean to be this thing? and what does it not mean?"